Recent area Engineers meetings  within  Somerset County  proposed and adopted  the 301/290 road stud as a prefered  overall counties choice.Several areas had  been evaluating the 301/290 through  lengthy testing  and critical site trials, and comes on top of reports indicating that Devon County Council has high interest in the 301/290
 
Individual reports taken from  various sites  gave county engineers  outstanding  results. These indicated  the  high levels of maintained  night time reflectivity, and the reporting of no overall product durability problems ,  and no actual individual  losses of reflectors nor housings .  It had been noticed  that even  where the studs had been installed  more than three years a similar pattern of no losses or degradation were reported .

Somerset County engineers therefore endorsed  that the  301/290 road studs should be the product of the county by choice , and the recommendation to use  the 301/290  were further  supported by the county  surface dressing contractor  Kiely Bros Ltd  and WJ Roadmarking south west Ltd,  both indicating  the  ease of installation  that  makes the 301/290  their prefered choice 

 It is now expected that a  further 18,000 301/290 road studs  will be installed  in Somerset, County Council and with Devon now using  the 301/290 in limited use these two counties  are certainly  making  a good  investment  that will be recognised  in future years .